$302,000 for the relief of German Jews has been received thus far after two weeks of campaigning, it was announced by I. Edwin Goldwasser, Nathan Straus Jr., and Ira M. Younker, co-chairmen of the United Jewish Appeal, which is seeking $1,200,000 in New York City out of a national quota of $3,000,000 for the relief and rehabilitation of the Jews of Germany and settlement in Palestine.
Yesterday’s report is the first statement on financial receipts since the drive was officially inaugurated on May 13. It was stated that fifty trade organizations are at work soliciting subscriptions from members of their respective industries. In addition a Women’s Division, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Roger W. Straus, is canvassing the women of New York in the five boroughs for a $200,000 quota, and a Junior Division is raising funds among the Jewish youth of the city. The campaign is expected to continue until July 1.
GOV. LEHMAN TO BE FETED
A dinner, the proceeds of which will be turned over to the German Jewish relief drive, will be held June 21 at the Hotel St. George by the Brooklyn section of the United Jewish Appeal, it was also announced. Governor Lehman will be guest of honor.
Felix M. Warburg, National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, will be guest of honor at a dinner at the Commodore on June 13, at which the Food Division of the drive, headed by Dr. G.A. Lowenstein, hopes to raise $50,000.
The campaign officers also made public a letter by Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University, urging public support of the campaign for German Jewish relief. It read:
“The picture of anti-Semitism in Germany which has lately been revealed has shocked the sensibilities of men and women everywhere without regard to race or creed. Whatever it has done to the cause of amity among the peoples of the afflicted country, it has certainly quickened the bonds of human sympathy elsewhere and made of those anachronous barbarities within the German Reich a cause universal so far as the rest of the world is concerned. I hope the United Jewish Appeal for the relief of the distressed peoples may meet with the immediate and successful response it so eminently deserves.”
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